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In high school I had to write a long apology essay in part because my computer teacher testified to the principal that the Windows command line is "a high-security area of the comp…

> Although each of these counts bordered on the preposterous, Ortiz and Heymann clearly reckoned that at least one or two would stick during the jury-room bargaining process. ... P…

For me, external documentation is the absolute worst scenario. It takes me at least 4 times longer to read through and understand code without comments explaining in English what's…

Unless the shared object file also includes an override for the function that expands environment variables to lie about the true value of LD_PRELOAD.

I think it has more to do with bureaucracy than with fear of litigation. In an ecosystem as complicated as medical care, lots of policies and procedures accumulate over time and th…

The screenshot at the bottom is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

The "Dear Sir" and "Mr." built into the form letter on page 7 caught my eye. That's not something you see anymore.

The difference isn't just replacing {} with . Notice that the tag name is only specified once. The end tag is only an end } not a . This is more satisfying to programmers because t…

`pass` is uncracked?

> Books need to be written, edited, typeset, 'printed' / 'put into ebook format', distributed, etc. The author writes the book. Typesetting and "putting into ebook format" are a co…

There's nothing stopping people from uploading the files to bittorrent. It's only the hackers' anonymity that matters.

"What struck me most about the entry was Van Riesen's philosophical approach to the matter, which is remarkably prescient of the challenges we, as the human race, face with how to …

Then again, maybe AI-based surveillance could eliminate crime without embarrassment from other people violating your privacy.

I typically take the classic step of choosing "What is my password?" as a custom security question.

> We calculated these times from the report's "Inventory Turn" metric, which estimates the number of times a company's inventory is sold in a given time period. Apple's number is 7…

Amnesia was creepy, but I wouldn't call it excellent. Psychonauts is the 3D game that really shines in this pack. It's extremely memorable and utterly original. Fun fact: the Metac…

"Take the most significant part, rip off the constants, and that's its growth rate." Well, it's an upper bound on its growth rate. And only after some possibly-gigantic n.

Academics are notorious for their code, but I suspect the parent was talking about people in industry with a CS background.

> Is it possible – just possible – that Edison honestly believed that AC was dangerous and honestly did not think it should be use? This strikes me as pretty naive. Edison had the …

The families of solutions are described by the puzzle's author here: http://apps.topcoder.com/forums/?module=Thread&threadID=...

Are there supposed to be instructions to this somewhere?

At research universities most of the budget comes from research, and most of the work in research gets done by grad students. Undergrad programs are an afterthought.

I know! People get so attached to the idea of free will. What free will? You do what you want, but you have no control over what you want.

Great book, but I don't think the treatment of virtual hells was very convincing. First of all, the characters in hell would have gone insane with agony, but they just kind of winc…

The "rate limited" option in the video reminds me of slow clubs from that book. For people who haven't read it, in the novel there are virtual parties called slow clubs where poor …